Albert schmidt



A. SCHMIBT.

CURTMN ROD SUPPORT.

APPucAHoM mil) Nth/25,1918.

Pr ented Sept. 14, 1920.

UNITED .S

ALBERT sonmmr, or nnrnorf; iiroisrcnn, assistant assent coaronn Tron, or ns'raorr, rncnrea'u, a eoarona'r on or ew YORK.

I CURTAIN-ROD surroirr;

u sp enst efi ratenteu Sept. 14, 1920.

Application filed November 25, 1918}: semi No. 263,982.

To all whom it may cancers:

'troit, county of Wayne,

Be it'known that I Ansnnr steam, a' citizen of the United btates, residing at e- State. of .Michigan, have invented a new andjuseiullmprovement in Curtain-Rod Supports, of which the following is a specification- This invention relates to curtain supports for'doors. These are not, broadly new as a curtain supports for detachably the doors of automobilesare already in use. These, however, require the good many fastening to fastening or unfastening of some device before the curtain support can be ut in place or detached. It is the object or this invention to provide a hidden socket and at the same time a very simple form of. support;

- doors to receive the socket fixture.

I Fig. 4 is a section on the line 44 of i .1.

a common method of attachin these curtain supports to the door is to slot the our tain support and have screws that screw; through the slot and into sockets in the door.

tool before the curtain rod can-be attached or detached and also interferes with the trimming. It is the object of this invention to do away with this-unsightliness and at the same time afford a rod which can beattached and detached without'a tool so that tains whichact at jams.

Thismakes a rather untidy" appean 'ance and it requires the application of a provided with a lower section a bent on a true arc of the same radius at all points, taperedat the end an. a 1

The socket member is formed by the concave" face plate dand the concave rear plate "e oi semi-cylindrlcal cross section. The l flanges .ofthe concave face plate fold over the-flanges of therear plate, as shown in Fig. 4, and screws fpass through these flanges tosecure the socket in the concave mortise 9' made in the door frame. This socket has a turned-up lug h at the bottom "which serves as a stop for the end of the curtain may This socket has an arc struck onthe same. radius as the arc section of the curtain support and is arranged to fit the curtai'n support fairly tightly so as to prevent all rattling, due to tapering of socket and rod.

Nowobviously this curtain rod can .only be taken out of the socket by a turning movement on an axis coincident with the center of the arc that describes the section 0. Obviously the door when closed will cause the doorcurtain to bear against adjacent portions of the top or adjacent side cur- The top itself tends to prevent any of this turning movement if: thejarring of the car overcomes the weight of the curtain and curtain rod so as to tend to force it out. Hence when traveling along the road the top cooperates to keep the curtain rod in place while when in a stationary position the door is opened the ravity will keep the curtain rod in place. no can easily/appreciate how easily the curtain'and rod may be detached from the door simply by opening the door and turn ing the rod out. The are socket makes twisting of the rod impossible.

One of the very marked advantages of this construction is that everything but the cscutchcon 11, which is screwed over the upper opening inthe rear plate and onto the doorframe, is concealed under the trimming is when the door has been finished.

The rod itself. is made out of common rod stock bent to the proper shape so that it is the cheapest possible construction. Storage place can be afforded in the car to take care of both the rod and the curtain so that the curtain can beput up just as easily as any of the other curtains, which is not the case with any prior construction with which I am familial:

The angular position of the curtain sup porting section a on the rod can be easily r ulated by the position of the stop it Vhat I claim is:

1. A door curtain fixture, having in combination, a socket member which can be secured to the door and which has a relatively long recess formed on an arc, and a curtain rod whose lower end is formed on the same are to turn in and be capable of being held in said recess of the socket member without other fastening means.

2. A door curtain fixture, having in com bination, a socket member built to'be secured to a vehicle door and provided with a relatively long recess formed on a true are, a door curtain rod having upright curmin-supporting portions, an angular portion, and a lower arc section adapted to fit in the arc recess of the socket member and capable of being supported solely by said relatively long recess.

3. A door curtain fixture, having a socket member formed of plates forming an opening and arranged to be secured to a vehicle door, said plates forming an arc-like passage-way relatively long and which terminates at the bottom in a rest, and a door curtain rod having a curtain-supporting sec tion and a lower section formed on an arc curtain supporting section and a lower are section adapted to turn into the passage-way in the socket member on a turnlng morement coincident with the center on'which the arc-like passageway of'ithe socket is struck.

5. A curtain support, having in combination, a socket incmherhaving a relatively long and small passageway which has both a vertical and lateral direction, and a cue tain rod having an upright curtain support-- ing portion and a lower portion, the latteformed to fit nicely into the said passageway and to follow the directions of the passage-way and which requires both a kit oral and a vertical movement to locate the curtain rod in the socket or take it from the socket, whereby the'rod may be adequately supported solely by the lower part resting in said passageway.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the 19th day of November, 1918.

ALBERT SCHMIDT; 

